How
New Orleans Charter Schools have become the Global Model for the Community
Education Agenda

“OPEN
is a hub of hubs."
Orleans Public Education Network (OPEN), funded by W.K Kellogg Foundation

...New
Orleans is... the nation’s first and only all-charter school district,
the Recovery School District [RSG]. The system of charter schools,
which are run by private groups instead of a publicly-elected board....RSG
focuses less on the ABC's and more on holistic
child development, including topics like socialization, independence,
self-control, communication skills and accepting responsibility. (Source)

As
the executive director of Tulane University’s Cowen Institute
for Public Education Initiatives, John Ayers devotes
most of his time and energy to tracking the progress
of New Orleans schools and the children... setting in motion
a full-scale reform of the city’s schools.... (Source)

No
wonder John Ayers and company are at Tulane University! Look what its
Cowen Institute said back in 2006 regarding a national/international
model for urban renewal - "the village." And they already
have the charters in place, and the Archdiocese of New Orleans on board,
via partnershipping. "To
come back, Cowen [Institute] decided: 'We have to build a village'."
(Source)

"Hurricane
Katrina was a huge disaster which gave us the greatest opportunity of
many lifetimes. We literally disassembed the entire educational
structure of New Orleans and restructured it in a new
model, principally based upon CHARTER SCHOOLS." (Source
and Source)

As
Winston Churchill once said, "“Never let a good crisis go
to waste.” Katrina was the crisis. Charter schools became the
solution. Charters are a phony "choice" for parents and American
citizens. Charter schools effectually eliminate our American voter representative
form of government, the free market system, truly private education
(including religious and home schools), and our personal freedoms to
speak and think. (Read: The
3-Legged Stool of School "Choice" and School
"Choice" For Dummies.)

The
situation brewing in New Orleans should serve as a wake-up call to all
Americans who are concerned about protecting our liberties and true
freedom of choice.

Below
are key pieces of documentation about this radical New Orleans restructuring
of public education into charters. As you read through this, notice
what happens to the parents, the children and the community. This New
Orleans Model has been purposefully designed to be a model for community
transformation internationally:

"After
Tulane formed a partnership with Dillard, Xavier and
Loyola as part of the higher education "village"...,
Tulane officials set to work devising ways to make the partnership
permanent, not only helping to rebuild the city... [and] shape Tulane's
focus on urban communities....

As
part of the university's increased emphasis on urban community-building,
Tulane is creating a new program, the Partnership for the Transformation
of Urban Communities, that will support educational, outreach
and research programs of national and international
relevance stemming from the Hurricane Katrina experience...

Tulane,
Dillard, Xavier and Loyola will be partners in the
program, which Cowen says is the only such partnership
in the country. "Our focus will be on transforming and
sustaining healthy communities locally, regionally and around the world,
but will begin with the city of New Orleans," he says.
[emphasis added]

Notice
all the "partners" in the school and community restructuring
of New Orleans. This list includes Tulane University, "Charter
Public Schools," and the Catholic Archdiocese. What is missing
from this list? Humble parents, honest citizens and ordinary voters.

"NOLA
SMILE (Science and Mathematics, Inquiry, Learning and Exploring) is
a partnership among the Recovery School District (RSD),
Tulane University (TU) (specifically the Teacher Certification Program
in the Newcomb-Tulane College and the School of Science and Engineering),
the Scott
S. Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives, LIGO (The Livingston
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory), the Archdiocese
of New Orleans, the Lusher Charter Public Schools,
and the Isidore Newman School. These partnerships serve
as important connections between the university, a high-need local educational
agency, public Charter schools, non-public schools,
and informal
education agencies." [emphasis added]

This
community transformation agenda is also known as the "hub"
(see quote at top of this article and also read: The School of the Hub).
"The Hub" agenda, described below, includes such things as
"sustainable health," however it comes to be defined,"
and "well-being," whatever that means. Note that the goal
is to "produce level outcomes." In other words, this city-wide
transformation is outcome-based (OBE), i.e., performance-based and standards-driven.
Who is defining these criteria? And by what measures will they be assessed?
Note how this has expanded from children to everyone in the community!
Suddenly this is all about "urban issues" and "global
perspectives":

"Comparative
studies of urban issues -- from contemporary and
historical, local and global perspectives -- can lead
to the creation of public policy that fosters sustainable health
and well-being. "The heart of the matter is a level playing
field," adds Devine. The idea of equity is not to produce level
outcomes, but to provide level opportunity." [emphases
added]

The
goal is to spread the poison of fake "choice" (charters schools)
to Kansas City and beyond. It turns out that John Ayers, in his influential
position as the head of Tulane's Cowen Institute, has been setting up
New Orleans to be a MODEL for the rest of the country, even the world.

The
following is what Kansas City parents learned about the New Orleans
Model coming to their city. Take note of this statement: "handing
over the keys to schools to non-profit charter operators." Voters,
you have just lost your rights to representative government. Parents,
you have just lost your rights to local control over the education of
your children. It is "charter operators" who now have the
run of things:

A
nearly decade-long reform of the New Orleans public school system, which
has put a greater percentage of students in educator-controlled
schools than any other district in the nation... could become
a model for state intervention into the troubled Kansas City
Public School system.

A
plan for taking over KCPS should the state of Missouri choose to intervene
in the unaccredited school district, developed by education think-tank
CEE-Trust, borrows heavily from New Orleans’ experience
in decentralizing school control; handing over the keys to schools to
non-profit charter operators and educators given both freedom
to run schools as they choose and accountability for
meeting state-mandated performance standards....

As
the executive director of Tulane University’s Cowen Institute
for Public Education Initiatives, John Ayers devotes most of
his time and energy to tracking the progress of New Orleans schools
and the children... setting in motion a full-scale reform of the city’s
schools....

After
the storm [Hurricane Katrina], with students scattered and the district
both broke and badly broken, the state-run recovery school district,
or RSD, swooped in and took control of nearly all of New Orleans’
schools, leaving only a handful under the control of the Orleans
Parish School Board.

The
RSD, now with a portfolio of schools well beyond its ability to manage
alone, began re-launching schools as charter schools;
some run by the RSD itself, others by operators that grew organically
in New Orleans’ neighborhoods and school communities or arrived
with national reputations,...

Note
that last sentence about "choice." True choice is being exchanged
for a lie. This "choice" described above is a phony choice.
Who actually controls the "choice"? The goal is to fool people
into thinking they are influential "stakeholders" and "partners"
in the planned transformation of New Orleans into a model global community
"village." This is a clever and deceptive orchestration of
consensus. In the global governance model, people are merely "partners"
in the overall transformation of their communities. (Beware: dissenters
have been referred to as extremists.)

Parent
training (Source)

Here
is how parents are being subtly stage-managed into acceptance for the
New World Village Order:

But
there’s a platform fostering real dialogue and collaboration around
critical issues affecting student performance, issues like race and
class. The concept behind Orleans Public Education Network (OPEN) began
in 2007, just two years after Hurricane Katrina, and the program launched
in 2009 to encourage authentic dialogue around rebuilding the education
system and engaging the entire community, especially parents....

The
reality of public education in New Orleans is that it is the nation’s
first and only all-charter school district, the Recovery School District.
The system of charter schools, which are run by private groups instead
of a publicly-elected board....

As
New
Orleans’ schools evolve, so does OPEN. They now are helping
parents and organizations navigate the dynamics of the newly formed
all-charter schools system through partnership and convening conversations.
[emphasis added]

In
fact, parents are supposed to become the chief cheerleaders for this
new global community education structure. Parents are being re-trained
as "change agents." Their parental duties are being redefined
into the "it takes a village" ideology. This involves re-educating
them on their "civic responsibility" to society/community:

Parent
engagement is at the core of OPEN’s work in New Orleans. One of
their signature programs is the Parent Leadership Training Institute
(PLTI), which trains parents on how to use their voices to advocate
for their children, while navigating the city’s diverse school
system....

Through
the PLTI program, OPEN provides transportation, child care and other
support structures that enable parents to meet once a week in the evenings
for three-hour sessions.... [T]hree dozen parents have completed the
program....

...“Ready,
Set, Go” (RSG),... advocates the importance of early learning
and instills the notion that parents are a child’s first, and
most important educator.... [Ed. Note: This is the infamous "parents
as teachers" concept, in which the State "re-trains"
parents according to politically correct criteria, which is described
in my book the
deliberate dumbing down of america.]

From
the Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI), comes the following
scenario.
Parents are being herded into small groups, put through "retreats"
(encounter group sessions), and indoctrinated in a form of governance
that excludes voter representation. In order to introduce significantly
new concepts to parents, the “change process” developed
by the social scientist Kurt Lewin is utilized:

•Un-Freeze the old beliefs by rethinking, questioning,
arguments, or by mocking and ridiculing the old.•Change philosophies and beliefs,
and introduce new teachings, ideas, materials, and ways of thinking.•Re-Freeze – establish
a new worldview, a new paradigm, a new foundation, and a new idea about
how government should work in America.

What
"stakeholder" really means

The
information below represents some of the most alarming information we
have ever seen. As you read through this, ask hard questions about WHY
parents
are being put through this sort of intensive psychological wringer to
become community "change agents." Define "civic relations."
Define "democracy." Define "health." Chances are
that you won't agree with their definitions. Notice that parents are
flattered into thinking that this is "Leadership Training."
In reality, this is training on how to be good little followers, herded
along by the real stakeholders (those collaborators and partners who
intend to drive a stake into the heart of the American freedoms).

The
Parent Leadership Training Institute trains, inspires and empowers parents
to become effective advocates for children. PLTI is a statewide initiative
created to improve the lifelong health, safety and learning of children
by helping you develop the leadership skills to make real change –
in schools, communities and state and local governments. Through PLTI’s
adult learning experiences, you explore your passions, strengths, beliefs
and ideas. You’ll then work to develop interpersonal and public
communications skills, as well as deepening your understanding of government,
media and civic relations.

What
is the Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI)?:

•
A 20-week initiative for adults concerned with the future of our children
and families• A civic leadership initiative• A public-private community partnership• A training ground in civics and democracy• PLTI teaches parents how to become change agents
for the next generation.

The
Parent Leadership Training Institute enables parents to become advocates
for children and communities.... PLTI teaches parents who wish to improve
children’s lifelong health, safety and education how to become
practiced change agents for the next generation....

Through
practical advocacy instruction, media training, and hands-on community
projects, parents are empowered effect change in their local schools,
communities, and governments. The Institute also works with programs
and initiatives to facilitate attitudinal change towards parents, and
to help design systems reform to allow for for significant parental
involvement.

[PLTI]...
integrates child development leadership and democracy skills into a
parent-friendly curriculum. Participants attend a 20-week program consisting
of one three-hour session per week....

Parents
are offered three steps of training built on interactive adult learning
practices:

So
the next time you receive a slick mailing from the establishment Conservative
Right touting Charter Schools as "Choice," especially presenting
it as a solution for the "Common Core" agenda, don't fall
for it. You may think you can control the variables and influence the
outcome. But, as can be seen by the New Orleans experiment, this agenda
is already miles further ahead than you ever dreamed possible. This
New Orleans Model represents a collusion of the political Left with
the political Right for the formation of a system of global governance
that will re-shape every local community into "the village."
Heaven help us!

In
a 1968 speech, "The United Nations and Alternative Formulations—The
Hard Road to World Order,” Richard Gardner, former U.S. deputy
assistant secretary of state and U.S. ambassador to Italy, provided
an accurate forewarning and picture of the environment in which Americans
and citizens of other countries live today, explaining how the elitist
planners would, through the use of gradualism, succeed in their century-long
plan to create a One World Government. In an excerpt from the speech
Gardner explains the following:

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In
short, we are likely to do better by building our “house of world
order” from the bottom up rather than the top down. It will look
like a great, “booming, buzzing confusion,” to use William
James’s famous description of reality, but an end run around national
sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, is likely to get us to world
order faster than the old-fashioned frontal attack. [emphasis added]

To
view this article in its entirety with all emphases and links, click
here. This article was researched and authored by Charlotte Iserbyt
and the 3D Research Group. For updated information on this issue, click
here.

Charlotte
Iserbyt is the consummate whistleblower! Iserbyt served as Senior Policy
Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI),
U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration,
where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which
would control curriculum in America's classrooms. Iserbyt is a former
school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research
analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She
has also served in the American Red Cross on Guam and Japan during the
Korean War, and in the United States Foreign Service in Belgium and in
the Republic of South Africa.

Iserbyt
is a speaker and writer, best known for her 1985 booklet Back to Basics
Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum and her 1989 pamphlet
Soviets in the Classroom: America's Latest Education Fad which covered
the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements
which remain in effect to this day. She is a freelance writer and has
had articles published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The Bangor
Daily News, and included in the record of Congressional hearings.

No
wonder John Ayers and company are at Tulane University! Look what its
Cowen Institute said back in 2006 regarding a national/international model
for urban renewal - "the village." And they already have the
charters in place, and the Archdiocese of New Orleans on board, via partnershipping.